Enlight inks power purchase for 440MW Arizona PV

• CO Bar Solar plant will enter building in 2023 and also schedules online in 2024

Enlight's United States solar subsidiary Clenera has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the result from a 440MW solar plant in Arizona.

The 20-year PPA is with community-based energy utility SRP for the CO Bar Solar plant.

The project is positioned north-west of Flagstaff and also is due online in 2024.

Clenera, a developer of large-scale solar and also storage projects and also a subsidiary of Enlight Renewable Energy, will certainly create as well as run CO Bar Solar.

This project is one of several that support SRP in its long-lasting decarbonisation objectives.

It will likewise help SRP satisfy its broadened commitment to add 2025MW of new utility-scale solar sources by 2025.

CO Bar Solar will inhabit up to 2400 acres of exclusive land in Coconino County and also building and construction is expected to begin in 2023.

Over the course of the 18-month building and construction timeline, it is expected that approximately 550 building jobs will created, with numerous being regional.

Clenera vice head of state of organization growth Jared McKee stated: "We are excited to be working with SRP to create one of the biggest solar projects in Arizona.

" Clenera has actually historically led the way for renewable energy in the state, and CO Bar Solar is yet another example of progress being made in Arizona's clean power market. We give thanks to SRP for their partnership to make this opportunity possible."

Including this enhancement and others, SRP anticipates that nearly 50% of the retail energy it supplies to its clients will come from carbon cost-free sources by 2025.

These new renewable energy resources add to SRP's 2035 objectives to lower carbon intensity by 65% in 2035 and by 90% in 2050 from 2005 degrees.